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ANADIAN FOREST Products (Canfor) has

certainly spent enough money — $22.3 million

— to clean up its act at the Port Mellon pulp mill, but is it enough?

The 79-year-old mill has been the target of en- vironmentalists and concerned West Vancouver resi- dents for years. Until recently, the cause of the stink has been the Port Mellon mill’s failure to comply with provincial Totally Reduced Sulphur emission levels. Canfor is spending $2.3 million this year in pollution controls to stop the smelly mill emissions.

What Canfor and the provincial government have failed to address, however, is the mill’s possible emis- sions of highly toxic pulp mill byproducts of sulphur dioxide, particulate matter, mercaptans and chlorine. Low-level mixing of these products can prove deadly. Environmentalists directly blame these pollutants com- ing from the mill for causing a high Iung cancer rate in the Howe Sound area.

Sooner or later Canfor must address the en- vironmentalists’ claim. If the company waits and is forced by the government to monitor for the other pollutants, it will lose the public relations battle. If it is proven that these dangerous pollutants are coming from the mill and are responsible for the cancer deaths, Canfor can expect to lose much more than a few million dollars.

Whether the environmentalists are right or wrong, Canfor cannot afford to sit idle. It must act now to prove that the company is a good corporate citizen and immediately start monitoring for the potentially deadly pollutants.

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JUST AFTER THE SOUP they announced the score — 1,273. That was the head-count of the assembled friends of West Van MLA John Reynolds, tucking into their $125 plates in the cavernous ballroom of the Vancouver Con- vention Centre at last Friday’s “Roast Mr. Speaker’’ dinner emceed by John Pozer. The food, rather unexpectedly, was better than some of the speeches. Capilano MP Mary Collins said grace. Mayor Don Lanskail pro- posed the loyal toast. Then, turkey duly consumed, the 10 ‘‘roasters’’ got down to business — several of them more interested in shooting barbs at political opponents than in addressing the guest of honor. Taking turns at the rostrum for up to 15 minutes or more apiece were U.S. Consul-General Sam Fromowitz, Tory MP Gerry St. Germain, NDP Leader Mike Har- court, Tourism Minister Bill Reid, former federal minister-of-

Cliff Michaet, columnist Marjorie Nicholls, Teamster-Senator Kd Lawson and NDP House Leader Mark Rose. Left with the thankless task of winding up the show before an J1 p.m. audience growing noticeably restive, British Con- sul-General Brian Watkins handled his dilemma admirably and wins the Wright award for oratorical elegance. The Wright trophy for wit goes to Marjorie Nicholls and Jean Chretien gets an honorable mention for his performance as Jean Chretien.

Overall, the evening lived up to its billing as a happy, warm “‘fun” event, though a warning red light

on the rostrum at nine-minute in- / tervals would have done it no;

harm, But when 1,273 people shell out half an average family’s mon- thly grocery bill to tell a politician they like him — and when even the entree is served hot at their .i50 tables — you know SOMETHING

LEST WE FORGET ... A touching addition to last Wednes- day’s Remembrance Day rites in West Van was the honoring of the late Ruth Stott, 1985 Citizen of the Year, who died last February after 28 years of dedicated community service — notably as library ad- ministrator up to 1978 and later as first woman president of the West Van Chamber of Commerce which she helped steer through a difficult period of its development. Following the Cenotaph cere- ‘mony president Bill Soprovich and (other Chamber directors presented *Mayor Don Lanskail and library

; board chairman Bob Wyckham

with a commemorative bronze plaque inscribed: IN MEMORY — RUTH STOTT, 1912-1987, FOR HER SERVICE TO THE LIBRARY AND THE COM- MUNITY, WEST VANCOUVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. It will be mounted on a wall on the second floor of the library.

education and job training. Also WRIGHT OR WRONG: As addressing the everyone-welcome Russell Baker once observed, secu-

meeting will be MLA Angus Ree.

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FOSTSCRIPTS: The canvas harvest of Daniel Izzard’s safari to the Queen Charlottes last spring — his first remote painting expedition since his miraculous recovery, at 63, from his January 1986 heart transplant — will be on display at Harrison Galleries, Park Royal South, from Thursday, Nov. 26, It marks the noted West Van urtist’s 42nd one-man exhibition ... West Van Seniors Activity Centre is be- ing transformed into a ‘Winter Wonderland” for its big annual fundraiser this weekend. Its Christmas Craft Sale, held at the seniors’ centre and the West Van- couver Recreation Centre from II a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday (Nov.22), will offer scores of toys, knitted items and other handcrafted cre- ations, plus a Christmas bake sale and a lunchroom when you need a break from bargain-grabbing

Guest speaker this Saturday (Nov. 21) at the North Van-Capilano Socreds’ 9 a.m. breakfast meeting in Cheers Restaurant is Stan Hagen, minister of advanced

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OUT IN THE WILDS (of Park Royal!)...realistic camp display set up in the mall during recruiting drive by 3rd Capilano Scout Troop is demon- strated by Jamie Munso and Dana Marinakis (in tent).